{"id":2028,"date":"2019-08-29T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2019-08-29T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T19:55:56","slug":"nh-maine-writer-releases-latest-series-award-winning-maine-island-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/nh-maine-writer-releases-latest-series-award-winning-maine-island-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"NH\/Maine Writer Releases Latest in Series of Award-winning Maine Island Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"
The series protagonist, a Maine botanist, university professor\/playboy, travels island to island supposedly cataloging plants.\u00a0 He’s really meddling in island affairs and becoming involved in a series of grisly murders. In Ragged Island<\/em>, Gil \u201cHodge\u201d Hodges returns to Matinicus ,the setting of the first book in the series. He hopes to settle a few scores and come to grips with his troubled past. He, instead finds himself embroiled even more deeply in the life of the island.<\/p>\n Scott, has been writing since she was a teenager and has published five books over the last nine years. She is every bit as adventurous as her characters. Scott and her husband split their time between a residence in Lee, NH (Oct. through May) and the coast of Maine where they live aboard a sailboat in the warmer months, bouncing between their moorings in Kittery and Rockland . \u201cI search out islands with interesting histories that might lend themselves to the murder mystery genre,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n Scott is an experienced blue water sailor with over 30,000 ocean miles under her belt. \u201cI’ve sailed to Grenada and back on a whim, island-hopped through the Caribbean, and been struck by lightning in the middle of the Gulf Stream,\u201d she said. \u201cDespite all this adventuring, my favorite cruising ground still remains the coast of Maine, where I’ve been sailing for more than two decades.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott\u2019s inspiration for Ragged Island<\/em> came from a dangerous situation she experienced. \u201cA storm at sea forced me to take refuge in the harbor on the remote, real island of Matinicus just outside Penobscot Bay\u2014a place bursting with atmosphere and possibility:\u00a0a wild west-meets-beeper-generation lifestyle, an\u00a0unbelievable\u00a0\u00a022 species of wild orchid, and the ghost of a child some 200 years dead,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>Scott has a small writing studio in her home and another on the boat, which she calls a wonderfully peaceful place to do creative work. \u201cI write for three or four hours most days,\u201d she said. \u201cThe process varies depending on whether I’m in research mode or have progressed into the actual writing. As I’m zeroing in on an ending, I’ve been known to stay with it for eight hours or more,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\nBrowsing for a great mystery to read? Look no further than the spellbinding page turner Ragged Island<\/em> written by Darcy Scott.\u00a0 Ragged Island<\/em> is the third in a series of three Maine Island mysteries which have collectively won a number of awards (Best Mystery, 2013 Indie Book Awards; Silver Award, 2013 Readers Favorite Book Awards; Bronze Award, 2013 IPPY Awards; Winner,\u00a02019 National Indie Excellence Award, Northeast Regional Fiction).<\/p>\n